Kevin's Weblog

2009-05-02

I took a bit of a blogging hiatus. Not particularly that I ran out
of things to say, but rather there were technical difficulties. The
short version, because I’m sure nobody cares, is this: last fall I
retired my last non-Intel Mac. My blogging workflow involves Emacs
PSGML mode, and makes use of a couple obscure corners of that
package. Somehow on Intel Macs, one of those corners was busted.
Don’t ask me why. I vaguely intended to try to debug the problem,
but never got around to it. Last week, I decided I had something
valuable enough to say that I would — the horrors — undertake to
write valid XHTML without editor support. And, low and behold,
everything worked perfectly again. I haven’t updated Emacs. I’m
speculating something in some software update fixed something that
was the root cause of this rather obscure problem. But, yeah, I
really don’t know. But, I’m back!